难句类型:复杂修饰
解释:本句主语之长,主语的长度与谓语长度的比例之大,是极为罕见的,在最后的三个单词attest to this之前的所有内容,全是主语,主语和谓语的比例达到了46比3。不熟秋GRE和GMAT句式的人是很难把这句读懂的。句子的主语实际上是一个由and连接的并列结构,而真正的主语只有两个:Portrayals 和his reconstruction。Portrayals后面长度惊人的修饰成分以三个大列举的方式说出了其描述的对象,其中第一个列举中又包含了一个定语从句,修饰前面的folk,第二个主语的修饰成分中使用了一抽象词组:in the guise of,相当于一个介词,其意思是假借,在 .的幌子下,假装。
意群训练:Portrayals of the folk of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, whom he remembers from early childhood, of the jazz musicians and tenement roofs of his Harlem days, of Pittsburgh steelworkers, and his reconstruction of classical Greek myths in the guise of the ancient Black kingdom of Benin, attest to this.
76. A very specialized feeding adaptation in zooplankton is that of the tadpolelike appendicularian who lives in a walnut-sized balloon of mucus equipped with filters that capture and concentrate phytoplankton.
浮游动物体内一种极特殊的进食适应性变化是蝌蚪状的尾海鞘纲动物的那种适应性变化,而尾海鞘纲动物则存活于核桃大小的黏液球囊内,装备有过滤器,用以捕捉和集中浮游植物。
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